2.5.0 was the first version of the plugin to detect failures in communication with akismet.com and schedule retry attempts. One reason you could be seeing this is because your server periodically looses communication with akismet.com.

Curious – does Akismet report the sender’s email address to any anti-spam lists?

I’m asking because I’ve been testing the comments feature to see if CSS for comments look OK on every blog I set up. The email address I use suddenly found itself on a spam list and my emails are bouncing back.

As I never sent spam to anyone, I’m trying to figure out if Akismet had a play in it so I don’t do these tests using my email the next time

No, we never share email addresses or other private information with anyone. And we don’t share any information at all with email blacklists. Aside from the privacy and ethical problems, there’s not a lot of crossover between email and comment spam so it wouldn’t do much good.

I’ve been using Akismet for a little while and am *very* pleased with it. However, the neat graph that appears in the statistics page doesn’t seem to reflect what is going on. It currently looks flat at the value of four for the last two months, but Akismet has captured 20 spam in Nov and 12 in Dec.

Hi there,
For some reason, the Akismet WordPress plugin (v2.5.1) pretends that it cannot reach the Akismet servers. But I have captured HTTP exchanges between my machine and yours: communication happens, but for some reason your servers only return 301 or 404 errors.
It is definitely not a network issue, but I still don’t know how to fix this.
Any hints ?